The Pamela Paul Effect: Books betray us, yet still we cling to them
Many of us still venerate books. The evidence says they are not very good at what is supposed to be their primary job: putting new...
Critic swallows book
The Sydney Book Review is my kind of book review. It's online and free. Ever since I joined the blogging revolution in 2005 it's seemed...
Czesław Miłosz: Alpha, the Moralist
Czesław Miłosz is a Polish writer and Nobel Laureate who first came to Western attention in the early 1950s with the publication of The Captive...
The Great Covid Panic: now out!
It's here, the booklet I am sure you have all been waiting for. The one which Gigi Foster and Michael Baker slaved over for 10...
Stefan Zweig on killing your darlings and getting to the point
[caption id="attachment_34828" align="aligncenter" width="2560"] I put in "Getting to the point" on the marvellous free graphics site Unsplash, and up came this: by salvatore ventura[/caption]...
A review of “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes”, the prequel to “The Hunger Games”.
[spoiler alert!] As a fan of the “Hunger Games”, a dystopian trilogy where teenagers are thrown into gladiatorial games to fight till the last survivor...
George RR Martin just reminded us of the horrors of war and our role in them.
Episode 5 of the final season of Game of Thrones showed us a vengeful fallen angle, Daenerys Targaryen, after whom thousands of children in the...